In Context: Early-1900s Yup’ik Dance Mask, Yup’ik Tradition and Shorebird Conservation

Name: In Context: Early-1900s Yup’ik Dance Mask, Yup’ik Tradition and Shorebird Conservation
Start: 2025-04-22T16:00:00-08:00
End: 2025-04-22T18:30:00-08:00
Location: 625 C Street, Anchorage, AK, United States, Alaska 99501

Schedule

Tue Apr 22 2025 at 04:00 pm to 06:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

625 C Street, Anchorage, AK, United States, Alaska 99501 | Anchorage, AK

Shorebirds are part of the diet and culture of the Yup’ik people in the Yukon-Kuskokwim Delta. Shorebirds that breed in Alaska migrate across oceans and continents to wintering grounds in New Zealand, South America, and beyond. A Yup’ik dance mask representing a long-billed shorebird, or sugg’erpak, highlights the connections of Yup’ik people with their culture and homeland and the importance of fully including Indigenous peoples in bird and shorebird conservation.
Free; registration recommended. Registrants will have the opportunity to make pledges toward shorebird stewardship and paint shorebirds on precut material.
4 - 6:30 p.m. Tuesday, April 22, in the Discovery Center, Art Lab